Ex Parte Benson

FOSTER, Justice.

This is an original petition to this Court for mandamus to review an order of the Honorable J. Russell McElroy, Judge of the Tenth Judicial Circuit, directing petitioner to answer certain interrogatories propounded to him by defendant in a suit in which petitioner is the plaintiff.

Petitioner objects to the order on the ground that the interrogatories call for incompetent and irrelevant evidence. In the meantime, so far as we are advised, the suit awaits trial.

The point is made by counsel filing brief for the Judge to whom the rule nisi issued, that the defendants in the case…